VH Corner

I have some current favorite songs, but there aren’t any real videos that I can find on YouTube, so I’ll wait to post those. I did find one though, so I thought I’d share. Kings of Leon’s new album comes out September 23rd and this is the first single, “Sex on Fire”.

Tags: kings of leon, sex on fire

Switches are a British band. I heard their Drama Queen song on 94.7 and it was pretty catchy. The rest of the album is very ’70s-inspired dance rock. It is just good rock music with a bit of a beat to it. My favorite song of the group below is Step Kids in Love. Listen to them and let me know if you have a favorite.

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Tags: lay down the law, switches

Cut Copy are a band from Melbourne, Australia. I found them on emusic.com. I kept stumbling across their name under the Similar Artists section. I listened to the music samples and thought it sounded like fun so I downloaded their current album. It is great music to bob your head along to and would also make great dance music. It sounds like 80s new wave synth pop. So Haunted sounds like it would belong on the perfect mid-80s movie soundtrack instead of the some of the cheesy stuff that was the background/soundtrack music for those movies. I have read that the current album is not as good as the first one. Since I love this one, I have since downloaded the first one and will need to listen to that to see if I love it as well.

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Tags: cut copy, in ghost colurs

Here is a list of my current favorite songs:

Mika

Mika was born in Lebanon, but raised in Paris and London. He seems a cross between Freddie Mercury, Elton John, and Jellyfish. It is completely catchy pop music. His album, Life in Cartoon Motion, has hit number one in the UK and is released in the US this week. There are a few songs on You Tube that you can listen to. My favorite is Grace Kelly.

• Grace Kelly
• Love Today
• Relax, Take It Easy

Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor was born in Moscow in the former Soviet Union, but her family moved to the Bronx when she was a teenager. The Strokes decided they loved her and had her open up for them on their last tour. The first time I heard Fidelity, it bugged me. The second time, I loved it so I say give it a second shot after you hear it for the first time since the different singing style can grow on you. These songs come off her fourth album, Begin to Hope.

• Fidelity
• Better
• Samson
• On the Radio

The Kooks

The Kooks hail from Brighton, England. Their name comes from a David Bowie song, Kooks. Their debut album, Inside In/Inside Out, spent more than half of 2006 in the top 20 in the UK. They are just starting to get notice in the U.S. where they are currently touring and selling out gigs all over the place, including the stop in Portland in May. Naive is the first song that I heard from them and loved. I am also a big fan of Eddie’s Gun, which you can hear on MySpace. They are guitar pop goodness.

• Naive
• Seaside
• Sofa Song
• Ooh La

The Fratellis

The Fratellis are from Glasgow, Scotland. They have been greatly loved in the UK and dubbed as the “next Oasis”, but many other bands have been dubbed that in the UK press. They are fickle there. They won the Brit Award (Grammy equivalent) for Breakthrough Act. Their sound is along the same line as The Kooks with guitar pop, head bopping good times. Their debut album is Costello Music. Their first song, Flathead, was used in an iPod commercial. I never saw it. The first song I heard by them was Chelsea Dagger, which is my favorite. Flathead seems quite catchy too.

• Flathead
• Chelsea Dagger

Peter Bjorn and John

Peter Bjorn and John are two guys from Stockholm, Sweden. They met in 1999 and have made three albums together. Their third album, Writer’s Block, has the whistling song on it! I first heard the song on a weekend on the radio. I was bouncing my head to it, and Jer said the song was annoying. I said I liked it! I didn’t know who sang it. Then I heard it dancing a week or two later. I kept referring to it as the whistling song, until I finally figured out who sang it. Now I know it is Young Folks and I’m happy.

• Young Folks
• Objects of My Affection

Sources: Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Rolling Stone

I forgot to post songs last Wednesday and Saturday. I had three songs left for February, so you get them all today.

Artist: Louis XIV
Song: Finding Out True Love Is Blind
Album: Best Little Secrets Are Kept

More sexy, lusty love songs! I love the parts the woman sings best.

Finding Out True Love Is Blind

Ah chocolate girl, you're looking like something I want
(finding out true love is blind)
Ah and your little Asian friend she can come if she wants
(finding out true love is blind)
I want all the self conscious girls who try to hide who they are with makeup
(finding out true love is blind)
You know it's the girl with a frown with the tight pants I really want to shake up
(finding out true love is blind)

Wind me up and make me crawl to you
Tie me up and make me call to you

Wind you up and make you crawl to me
Tie you up until you call to me

I forgot to post songs last Wednesday and Saturday. I had three songs left for February, so you get them all today.

Artist: Bad Manners
Song: Skinhead Love Affair
Album: Fat Sound

Bad Manners are an 80s ska band that died out in the 90s. I think they are still around, but it isn't clear if they are actually making new music. I found them when I was in my ska phase in the mid 90s. I loved everything ska then. Back in the 70s and 80s, ska music was sometimes referred to as 2-Tone music since it was black and white kids making it together. Also because they usually wore black and white suits. The British refer to skinheads more as the shaved head kids that listened to ska music in the 70s and 80s, and not to neo Nazi freaks. Even skinheads need love.

Skinhead Love Affair

I met her at a ballroom gig
She said my braces were too big
I said, "I like your 2-Tone clothes"
She said, "I like your broken nose"

I bought her lots of drinks that night
She bought me nothing but a fight
She said I wasn't Mr. Right
It's over, it's over, it's over

It was a skinhead love affair
You know, a skinhead love affair

I took her down to Last Resort
She stole a shirt, I went to court
She said she'd always stand by me
Even when I did DC
I thought about her everyday
Like lovers do when they're away
She never came to visit me
It's over, it's over, it's over

It was a skinhead love affair
You know, a skinhead love affair

On the day that I got out
My skinhead girl she weren't about
She got herself a sour girl perm
Joined the Candy Oil Infirm
I got down on bended knee
And asked her if she'd marry me
She said, "Skinhead, can't you see?
It's over, it's over, it's over"

It was a skinhead love affair
You know, a skinhead love affair

I'm just a skinhead in love
Just a skinhead in love
Just a skinhead, a skinhead, a skinhead in love
I'm just a skinhead in love

I forgot to post songs last Wednesday and Saturday. I had three songs left for February, so you get them all today.

Artist: Lick the Tins
Song: Can't Help Falling In Love
Album: Blind Man On a Flying Horse

I fell in love with this song when I watched Some Kind of Wonderful for the first time. It appears at the end of the movie after Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson kiss. I don't like Elvis, so I don't like the original. I do love this version though.

Can't Help Falling In Love

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I cant help falling in love with you
Shall I stay
Would it be a sin
If I cant help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I cant help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I cant help falling in love with you
For I cant help falling in love with you

If you are talking about love songs, you cannot forget the Dead Milkmen!

Artist: Dead Milkmen
Song: If You Love Somebody, Set Them on Fire
Album: Metaphysical Graffiti

The title really sums it up. I just had to pick this one for Valentine’s Day.

If You Love Somebody, Set Them on Fire

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I were to say to you
I didn’t set your house on fire
But it’s just the way I am
You’ll have to take it for a fact
Life can really burn you up
When you’re a pyromaniac

If you love somebody
Better set them on fire

I went to your house last night
Your dad called me the human torch
Got a little pissed at him
so I burned down your front porch
Now I feel a little bad
About pouring gas on your dad
But you know it’s hard to quit
And besides he started it

If you love somebody
Better set them on fire

I just bought a brand new lighter
And I cannot wait to use it
Oily rags are special things
You know to me they’re diamond rings
Maybe we can have some fun
Maybe we can burn someone

If you love somebody
Better set them on fire

The next love song is a super sad one.

Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Song: I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Album: Plans

Not all love songs can be super happy ones, but can still be filled with devotion. This is one of them.

I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Love of mine some day you will die
But I’ll be close behind
I’ll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
“Son fear is the heart of love”
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
it’s nothing to cry about
Cause wel’ll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

here’s your next love song!

Artist: The Stills
Song: Still in Love Song
Album: Logic Will Break Your Heart

It is a lovely little ditty about a delusional girl who is loved by a guy until he finally wakes up and realizes she is a waste of his time.

Still In Love Song

We were lovers, we were kissers
We were holders of hands; we were make-believers just losing time
You said you’d rather live in T.V. land and then say that you can but you don’t
that’s heartless and I will not cry

But I’m still in love
And I’m still in love… [3x]

you’re dreams of acting on screen. What do they mean?
You’ll be dancing senseless in your bedroom and
You find yourself out of a job and before too long
You’ll be selling lemonade to the overpaid

And I’m still in love… [5x]

I remember it was summer; I was out of my head but you would
you’re selfish and a waste of space

But I’m still in love
And I’m still in love… [6x]